Famous Quotes

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

Albert Camus on Art

More quotes about Art

• "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

  Albert Einstein on Art

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

  Vincent Van Gogh on Art

• "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."

  Abraham Lincoln on Art

• "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

  Aristotle on Art

• "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

  Oscar Wilde on Art

More quotes by Albert Camus

• "Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

• "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

• "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

• "Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

• "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."